Papercut Christmas Village with the Cricut

This gorgeous papercut Christmas village is the perfect decoration on your Christmas mantel or table! Cut this winter luminaria using your Cricut or other cutting machine and add fairy lights so it glows!

We’re cruising right along for the 25 Days of Cricut Christmas! It’s Day 14 and it’s really starting to feel like the holidays are headed this way. I love this time of year!

Today I am reworking an old post of mine that is a reader favorite. I never really loved how this papercut Christmas village was put together, so I reworked it for the 25 Days of Cricut Christmas. It’s so much better—easier to cut and easier to display. All you have to do is fold and add fairy lights!

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Papercut Christmas Village Supplies

• Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker
• 12″ x 24″ Blue LightGrip mat
• Fine Point Blade
• Scoring Stylus or Scoring Wheel (Maker only)
• 12″ x 24″ white cardstock
• Fairy lights
• Christmas Village Winter Luminaria SVG file

Grab the SVG for this Project

Papercut Christmas Village Instructions

Upload the Christmas Village File Cricut Design Space

We will start by uploading the Christmas Village file to Cricut Design Space (see Uploading SVG Files to Cricut Design Space if you need help).

You’ll notice that the score lines have already been added. This project is designed to be cut on a 12″ x 24″ mat, so unless you’d like to resize it, it’s ready to cut!

Click Make It in the upper right. In the Prepare Screen, you’ll get a warning saying you’re going to need the larger mat. Click OK.

Now you’ll see all of your mats. You can actually fit the two shorter village pieces on the same mat. So on Mat #2, click the image and select “Move,” and then move that image to Mat #1.

Once it’s on the first mat, rotate it a full 180º and it will nest nicely next to the other image.

Cut Your Cardstock for Your Christmas Village

On the Make Screen, you’ll set your material. I like using the “Cardstock – Intricate Cuts” setting for this project. A new blade is also helpful here—lots of tiny cuts! And for the scored pieces, make sure you’ve inserted the Scoring Stylus or Scoring Wheel.

Cut all the layers of the project. To remove the project from the mat, flip the mat over and carefully peel the mat away from the paper, using your hand to keep the paper flat on the table. Go slowly and make sure that all of the pieces of the project are releasing from the mat as you go.

Assemble the Christmas Village

This is an easy one! Just accordion fold on the score lines.

Then you can stand the pieces up on your mantel or shelf and use fairy lights to light the different layers. Fairy lights can be a bit tricky to get to stay put, so I use a little washi tape on my shelf to hold them down.